How to promote weight loss by balancing your blood sugar

If you are conscious
about your blood sugar level, and you are trying by all means to keep it
checked and balanced, this act alone can promote efficient weight loss. The
good news is that balancing blood sugar level does not only help you to lose
weight, it also guarantees that the weight stays off for good. It is a tragic
fact that only about 15-20% of people who lose weight manages to keep the
weight off for more than 2 years.

The problem lies with
the fact that most people are following crash diets or other dieting trends in
order to lose weight quickly, instead of thinking long-term and adopting a
sustainable healthy way of living. The other problem is that most diets aren’t
really concerned with stabilizing your blood sugar levels.

What
are blood sugar levels?

Blood sugar levels
refer to the amount of glucose circulating in your bloodstream, and this
glucose are extracted from the food you eat. Glucose is used to provide energy
to the cells, or be stored in the cells for future use.

Healthy blood sugar
levels are not only good for losing weight, they are vital to your overall
wellness and fitness. They help regulate hormones, trigger the body to burn fat,
and also increase your metabolism to help you lose weight.

Unfortunately, most
people’s blood sugar levels are not properly balanced. If you are getting too
much glucose in through the food you consume, it leads to high blood-sugar
levels, which your body cannot break down and stores as fat.

But be careful,
because if you do not get enough sugar it can also lead to putting on weight.
This is because too little glucose can lead to a low blood sugar level, causing
your body to go into “starvation mode” where it burns your lean muscle instead
of the fat.

Research suggests
that our bodies function best when we eat every 3 hours, as this is when our
bodies “want” to eat. If you eat your meals further apart than this, your body
begins to enter starvation mode.

Here is a sample menu
of what that might look like over the course of the day:

Breakfast:
Egg whites, bacon and oatmeal

Lunch:
Chicken burger with avocado on a whole wheat bun

Dinner:
A small portion of steak with sweet potato and butter

As your blood sugar
stabilizes by sticking to the rule of 3, you release previously stored fat. And
the leaner you get, the more you will be able to eat.

Just remember, you
can always eat as many veggies as you’d like, as they are packed with vitamins
and nutrients your body needs and are low in calories.